c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2,784	75,835	I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.	Paris Hilton	newyears
9,481	20,062	It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.	Doug Coupland	family
2,406	5,478	It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.	Robert Plant	beauty
5,184	43,630	The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.	Vincent Van Gogh	love
5,745	51,068	I'm very inspired by past music.	Adam Lambert	music
4,635	10,091	I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.	Ruth St. Denis	communication
4,892	63,193	But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.	Henry Louis Gates	society
623	10,263	But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.	Jesse James Garrett	communication
834	62,923	The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.	Bertrand Russell	society
3,879	47,625	Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.	Sophocles	money
815	56,479	An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.	Phaedrus	power
7,978	12,142	I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.	John Malkovich	dad
1,884	61,129	In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.	Lance Bass	sad
6,094	52,634	The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.	William Shenstone	patriotism
11,160	1,575	I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.	Eddie Van Halen	alone
8,142	36,786	Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.	Ouida	hope
3,165	17,572	The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.	Alfred Adler	experience
7,871	42,816	Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.	Steven Biko	life
10,128	75,790	On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.	Eric Burdon	memorialday
4,385	68,498	A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.	Stewart Alsop	time
10,380	66,895	Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.	Jeanine Basinger	teacher
523	6,103	Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.	L. Wolfe Gilbert	beauty
9,494	44,167	I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.	Alanis Morissette	marriage
8,039	69,610	The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.	Karen Hughes	travel
513	26,034	Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.	Jeff Bridges	funny
10,614	34,597	Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.	Ric Keller	history
394	46,642	I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.	Elizabeth Olsen	mom
9,838	20,590	We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.	Barbra Streisand	family
3,083	42,848	You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.	Drew Barrymore	life
6,376	2,503	If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.	Yahoo Serious	amazing
11,684	11,766	Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.	David Ben-Gurion	courage
11,484	53,307	Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.	Daisaku Ikeda	peace
700	56,795	The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.	Samuel Adams	power
5,459	45,020	Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.	Jan Schakowsky	medical
10,779	75,533	I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.	Diane Abbott	christmas
11,015	46,264	I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.	Kim Kardashian	mom
10,454	16,051	If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?	Virginia Woolf	education
7,085	63,661	I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.	Guillermo Cabrera Infante	society
11,157	59,390	So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.	Pat Boone	religion
4,023	32,989	There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.	Josh Billings	health
8,779	45,780	Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?	Victor Hugo	men
3,938	45,558	Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.	Bertrand Russell	men
7,870	9,007	The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.	Tom Kristensen	car
7,987	43,583	We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	love
6,117	24,519	While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.	Vladimir Lenin	freedom
10,091	38,319	Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.	Henri Frederic Amiel	intelligence
11,510	15,765	Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.	Lorenz Hart	dreams
5,543	15,847	An educated people can be easily governed.	Frederick The Great	education
10,644	6,920	Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.	Doug Coupland	best
6,801	48,041	If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.	Albert Brooks	money
8,575	69,828	For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.	H. L. Mencken	trust
7,572	8,280	A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.	Donny Osmond	business
7,257	44,856	When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.	Rodney Dangerfield	medical
2,231	12,160	As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.	Christine Keeler	dad
3,095	13,777	A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.	Stanislav Grof	death
2,161	34,301	The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.	Jimmy Carter	history
10,532	65,599	Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.	Nolan Ryan	success
9,402	39,951	Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.	Abraham Cowley	knowledge
6,231	10,651	The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.	Britney Spears	cool
11,322	66,048	The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.	James D. Watson	success
5,975	41,447	Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.	Tommy Mottola	learning
9,508	22,121	I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.	Robert Fulghum	fear
11,734	19,742	I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.	Nick Rahall	faith
10,909	9,553	No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.	Emma Goldman	change
4,960	23,187	I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.	Rodney Dangerfield	food
4,448	32,236	A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.	Stendhal	happiness
345	36,150	I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.	Lady Gaga	hope
5,763	11,109	I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.	Jim Coleman	cool
7,297	38,438	The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'	Bill Maher	intelligence
342	74,107	I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.	Christina Aguilera	women
7,103	38,453	Intelligence is enormously sexy.	Frank Langella	intelligence
5,863	45,697	Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.	Mitt Romney	men
11,184	37,035	People with no humor, they're outta my life.	Patti LaBelle	humor
1,273	2,634	Croatia is an amazing place.	Jean Reno	amazing
1,345	40,532	Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.	Angelina Jolie	learning
6,947	58,336	I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.	Jennifer Love Hewitt	relationship
4,219	63,990	Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.	Drew Carey	sports
9,398	13,887	Life is a predicament which precedes death.	Henry James	death
10,559	29,603	Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.	Ted Hughes	good
7,354	14,446	I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.	Brad Pitt	design
193	54,735	There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.	Anthony Hecht	poetry
572	43,730	True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.	Julia Roberts	love
997	67,578	So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.	Daniel Greenberg	technology
383	15,175	I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.	Jon Stewart	dreams
6,575	67,957	I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.	Isaac Bashevis Singer	thankful
11,011	73,964	I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.	Babe Ruth	women
1,110	51,667	A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.	Alexander Pope	nature
6,172	62,821	In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	society
6,943	26,896	The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.	James A. Baldwin	future
7,422	33,595	The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.	John Conyers	health
3,425	68,839	I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.	Calvin Coolidge	time
11,345	9,395	In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.	Richard M. Nixon	change
8,033	49,270	The best movies are simple.	Shia LaBeouf	movies
881	45,916	It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.	Andre Gide	men
475	74,062	The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.	Emma Goldman	women
8,940	4,746	Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.	Kathleen Turner	attitude
10,816	113	Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.	Albert Einstein	age
3,416	12,500	So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.	Ron Perlman	dad
1,910	21,041	Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.	Lucius Accius	famous
2,686	11,944	When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.	Sam Raimi	courage

2,784

75,835

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

Paris Hilton

newyears

9,481

20,062

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Doug Coupland

family

2,406

5,478

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Robert Plant

beauty

5,184

43,630

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

love

5,745

51,068

I'm very inspired by past music.

Adam Lambert

music

4,635

10,091

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

communication

4,892

63,193

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Henry Louis Gates

society

623

10,263

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Jesse James Garrett

communication

834

62,923

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

society

3,879

47,625

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Sophocles

money

815

56,479

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

power

7,978

12,142

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

dad

1,884

61,129

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Lance Bass

sad

6,094

52,634

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

patriotism

11,160

1,575

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

Eddie Van Halen

alone

8,142

36,786

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

hope

3,165

17,572

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Alfred Adler

experience

7,871

42,816

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

life

10,128

75,790

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

Eric Burdon

memorialday

4,385

68,498

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

time

10,380

66,895

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Jeanine Basinger

teacher

523

6,103

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

L. Wolfe Gilbert

beauty

9,494

44,167

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

marriage

8,039

69,610

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Karen Hughes

travel

513

26,034

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Jeff Bridges

funny

10,614

34,597

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

history

394

46,642

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Elizabeth Olsen

mom

9,838

20,590

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Barbra Streisand

family

3,083

42,848

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

life

6,376

2,503

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Yahoo Serious

amazing

11,684

11,766

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

courage

11,484

53,307

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

Daisaku Ikeda

peace

700

56,795

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Samuel Adams

power

5,459

45,020

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Jan Schakowsky

medical

10,779

75,533

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

christmas

11,015

46,264

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Kim Kardashian

mom

10,454

16,051

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

education

7,085

63,661

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

society

11,157

59,390

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Pat Boone

religion

4,023

32,989

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

health

8,779

45,780

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Victor Hugo

men

3,938

45,558

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

men

7,870

9,007

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

Tom Kristensen

car

7,987

43,583

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

love

6,117

24,519

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

Vladimir Lenin

freedom

10,091

38,319

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Henri Frederic Amiel

intelligence

11,510

15,765

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

Lorenz Hart

dreams

5,543

15,847

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great

education

10,644

6,920

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Doug Coupland

best

6,801

48,041

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Albert Brooks

money

8,575

69,828

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

trust

7,572

8,280

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Donny Osmond

business

7,257

44,856

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Rodney Dangerfield

medical

2,231

12,160

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

dad

3,095

13,777

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Stanislav Grof

death

2,161

34,301

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

Jimmy Carter

history

10,532

65,599

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nolan Ryan

success

9,402

39,951

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Abraham Cowley

knowledge

6,231

10,651

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Britney Spears

cool

11,322

66,048

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

James D. Watson

success

5,975

41,447

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Tommy Mottola

learning

9,508

22,121

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Robert Fulghum

fear

11,734

19,742

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

Nick Rahall

faith

10,909

9,553

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman

change

4,960

23,187

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Rodney Dangerfield

food

4,448

32,236

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

happiness

345

36,150

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Lady Gaga

hope

5,763

11,109

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

Jim Coleman

cool

7,297

38,438

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

Bill Maher

intelligence

342

74,107

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

Christina Aguilera

women

7,103

38,453

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Frank Langella

intelligence

5,863

45,697

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Mitt Romney

men

11,184

37,035

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Patti LaBelle

humor

1,273

2,634

Croatia is an amazing place.

Jean Reno

amazing

1,345

40,532

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Angelina Jolie

learning

6,947

58,336

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

relationship

4,219

63,990

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Drew Carey

sports

9,398

13,887

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Henry James

death

10,559

29,603

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Ted Hughes

good

7,354

14,446

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Brad Pitt

design

193

54,735

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Anthony Hecht

poetry

572

43,730

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Julia Roberts

love

997

67,578

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Daniel Greenberg

technology

383

15,175

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

Jon Stewart

dreams

6,575

67,957

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

thankful

11,011

73,964

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

women

1,110

51,667

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

nature

6,172

62,821

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

society

6,943

26,896

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James A. Baldwin

future

7,422

33,595

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

John Conyers

health

3,425

68,839

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge

time

11,345

9,395

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Richard M. Nixon

change

8,033

49,270

The best movies are simple.

Shia LaBeouf

movies

881

45,916

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

men

475

74,062

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

women

8,940

4,746

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

Kathleen Turner

attitude

10,816

113

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

age

3,416

12,500

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Ron Perlman

dad

1,910

21,041

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

famous

2,686

11,944

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Sam Raimi

courage